Okay... ignoring my lack of specific expertise in Sakura Wars... The Nazi exists in one form or another before WWI, the economic mess left by WWI was the
spring board for Hilter to move the national socialists along to power. Now, if WWI was again a demon invasion.... as apposed to an empire war that started
off after the ruler of Germany flipped out when his good friend, the archduke in charge of Austria gets shot... change that to him getting eaten by demons and
you have a major war against demons instead of countries. Problem is that when you kill them their blood evaporates into a ground clinging toxic gas...
meaning the idea of trench warfare is pretty much self defeating, for your troops. Lacking the Whispered equivalent to make them a magical girl team in
battlemechs (possibly they got killed), the Germans take the base tech and their engineers go at it. Enter the speed effective half platemail, half power
environmental suit armor. Produced in mass quantities it was the most effective thing in Europe to deal with the demons... only it took a few months to adapt
and the invasion wasn't quickly localized so the Germans (and everyone else that the Germans equipped) eventually fought it off. Gemany did however borrow
far too much to finance the thing and with a lack of demonic invasions going on the bills came in. Many countries helped by buying up the suits and the tech
behind them.... but the banks couldn't afford to not get paid back, it became us or them, either the bank or Germany was going down.
So the Germans were bankrupting quickly. A new word, billion/bimillion, was created describe just how much the Germans owed. Germany came up with a viable
plan. Remember that rampaging the demonic invasion... the one they had ot get American troops to fill out the army at the end of? Remember all those people
that got killed and all that land that got poisoned? If they could fix it they'd have a profitable commodity to sell. So German (and other countries went
after the land closest to them), starts spamming companies that clean up the landscape... Leaving the governments with lots of resalable land and lots of rich
influential companies that then get into politics. One of which is the fringe groups (that is very good at industry) running a major company that would have
been an anti-Jew political party of genocidal crazies, in another time line. Those that would have been the national socialist party.
So then we have all this land for sale... better market it... only all the artists have been training to make portraits and no one is actually trained for
unpopulated vistas... so they hire those who failed or were not allowed into art schools, those unfashionable landscape specialists. They find one in
particular that is very good at avoiding drawing in people those landscapes as specific people are known to make the land sell to only those who like the looks
of those people. Eventually he becomes the charismatic Adolf becomes head of marketing.... who right a book on the evils of demons and those who stick their
heads in the sand and pretend WWI never actually happened. He was going to go after the Jewish bankers... but his editor pointed out his company wouldn't
exist without them... so he went after the old order instead.
Now the would-have-been Nazis are known as a fringe group as they actually thing that the demons were supernatural and not space aliens like is considered
normal. This means they spend lots of money on trips and research to find mystic stuff. Which means they are literally the only group that is bothering to
ward or magically attempt to purify all that demon goo they removed from the lands. Everyone else is just putting it in multi-sealed, sometimes lead lined
vats, usually built underground. The pseudo-Nazis repeated attempts warn them of the bad idea of leaving ginormous vats untreated, unholy goo laying around
goes unheeded as stupid and superstitious in these 'enlightened times'. They point out that scientists have determined that their math says the goo
will decay on its own in 50 years or so. They never actually publish the math.
Most of the mystical community left Europe by now, America excepted the idea that those where actually unholy things... so did Japan (where the first known
portal was) and large parts of the less industrialized countries... the islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the British isles were actually considered
defensible and wardable. Most of the rest were old and not moving or joined up with the only group that actually believed this stuff existed, The
pseudo-Nazis. This meant that outside that one company Europe was largely caught flat footed when those vats start rupturing and unholy things poured out in
the early 1930s. As the only group, outside random armor foot solders who adorned their personal armor suit's with religious or mystic symbols (those that
actually fought the last invasion were believers in them being demons and managed to pass that on to some of the new generation), was those fringe freaks in
that company. So the years go on and this Germany super-company starts taking over random countries as the guys with the large scale effective army...
Marketing head and spokesman Hitler spends time in each of his dramatic speeches to point out he called this ahead of time and promote his next book on
reconstruction.
As most 'enlightened countries' aren't prepared for these invasions, social order breaks down. Random dictators and fascist government start
springing up all over the place... led by those who promoted the idea of a section invasion. Eventually the British get involved as the flying demons start
raiding them... though all those nongovernmental preparations for a demonic invasion were actually proved warranted. American forces are called in come the
late '30s for their air power, which didn't really take off outside of Britain in Europe as more that surveillance. Biplane vs. demons was a losing
idea in precedent. Things are getting down to cleanup operations as the decades come to a close... then communist Russia randomly invades Europe and draws
troops away from the nearly cleared out dump sights. The Russians have armored suits and walking weapon platforms... in relatively low quality and without the
mystic abilities... however there are many, many of them. The anti-demon armor suits and other forces are not really geared towards fighting more conventional
forces. Plus who would be stupid enough to attack them at that time?
It takes time to make enough conventional ammo and distribute it to fight them off and then that issue with those original demon portals randomly reopening
around '42-'43 and the Russians take half of Europe while the Allies are actually doing something useful for the species. Once again Germany, Russia
was not helpful taking over half the country, nearly bankrupts itself and we get roughly 1945-6 Europe and roughly the Cold war enviroment.
Probably should have some dumps or portals in Northern Africa and the Middle East just to keep thing closer to normal. Though the Middle East should be more
vindictive to Europe than towards America. Not that love they the US, they just remember the Europeans sold them on the idea of the profit from the dump
sights or just built them there without local say in the matter.
Meanwhile the Japanese have a Coup and invade everything in sight.... The Americans are not amused to be attacked by the 'surprise' (due to poor
translation speed) attack on Pearl Harbor. Add in America with weird where boat-Armslave centaur like landing craft and walking tanks, instead of thread tanks
doing the island hopping war as more or less normal... Then the portal reopens, earily '44ish (the site was warded, but those maintaining the wards left),
then maybe have half the military high command get eaten in the first demon wave. As their only source of Mecha ditched them as crazies early on, the Emporer
(probably remembering what those mecha were designed for and that that nobel group left at the start of this empire war) surrenders after the proto-Armslaves
take over a few major cities rather than then getting hit with a bomb that did so much damage they needed a new word to descrbe what happened to them. Though
the Emporer decides that dealing with the demons actually needs the mystic mecha team and that the surrender is conditional on them dealing with that..
That is my rough scenario on how this could happen.
spring board for Hilter to move the national socialists along to power. Now, if WWI was again a demon invasion.... as apposed to an empire war that started
off after the ruler of Germany flipped out when his good friend, the archduke in charge of Austria gets shot... change that to him getting eaten by demons and
you have a major war against demons instead of countries. Problem is that when you kill them their blood evaporates into a ground clinging toxic gas...
meaning the idea of trench warfare is pretty much self defeating, for your troops. Lacking the Whispered equivalent to make them a magical girl team in
battlemechs (possibly they got killed), the Germans take the base tech and their engineers go at it. Enter the speed effective half platemail, half power
environmental suit armor. Produced in mass quantities it was the most effective thing in Europe to deal with the demons... only it took a few months to adapt
and the invasion wasn't quickly localized so the Germans (and everyone else that the Germans equipped) eventually fought it off. Gemany did however borrow
far too much to finance the thing and with a lack of demonic invasions going on the bills came in. Many countries helped by buying up the suits and the tech
behind them.... but the banks couldn't afford to not get paid back, it became us or them, either the bank or Germany was going down.
So the Germans were bankrupting quickly. A new word, billion/bimillion, was created describe just how much the Germans owed. Germany came up with a viable
plan. Remember that rampaging the demonic invasion... the one they had ot get American troops to fill out the army at the end of? Remember all those people
that got killed and all that land that got poisoned? If they could fix it they'd have a profitable commodity to sell. So German (and other countries went
after the land closest to them), starts spamming companies that clean up the landscape... Leaving the governments with lots of resalable land and lots of rich
influential companies that then get into politics. One of which is the fringe groups (that is very good at industry) running a major company that would have
been an anti-Jew political party of genocidal crazies, in another time line. Those that would have been the national socialist party.
So then we have all this land for sale... better market it... only all the artists have been training to make portraits and no one is actually trained for
unpopulated vistas... so they hire those who failed or were not allowed into art schools, those unfashionable landscape specialists. They find one in
particular that is very good at avoiding drawing in people those landscapes as specific people are known to make the land sell to only those who like the looks
of those people. Eventually he becomes the charismatic Adolf becomes head of marketing.... who right a book on the evils of demons and those who stick their
heads in the sand and pretend WWI never actually happened. He was going to go after the Jewish bankers... but his editor pointed out his company wouldn't
exist without them... so he went after the old order instead.
Now the would-have-been Nazis are known as a fringe group as they actually thing that the demons were supernatural and not space aliens like is considered
normal. This means they spend lots of money on trips and research to find mystic stuff. Which means they are literally the only group that is bothering to
ward or magically attempt to purify all that demon goo they removed from the lands. Everyone else is just putting it in multi-sealed, sometimes lead lined
vats, usually built underground. The pseudo-Nazis repeated attempts warn them of the bad idea of leaving ginormous vats untreated, unholy goo laying around
goes unheeded as stupid and superstitious in these 'enlightened times'. They point out that scientists have determined that their math says the goo
will decay on its own in 50 years or so. They never actually publish the math.
Most of the mystical community left Europe by now, America excepted the idea that those where actually unholy things... so did Japan (where the first known
portal was) and large parts of the less industrialized countries... the islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the British isles were actually considered
defensible and wardable. Most of the rest were old and not moving or joined up with the only group that actually believed this stuff existed, The
pseudo-Nazis. This meant that outside that one company Europe was largely caught flat footed when those vats start rupturing and unholy things poured out in
the early 1930s. As the only group, outside random armor foot solders who adorned their personal armor suit's with religious or mystic symbols (those that
actually fought the last invasion were believers in them being demons and managed to pass that on to some of the new generation), was those fringe freaks in
that company. So the years go on and this Germany super-company starts taking over random countries as the guys with the large scale effective army...
Marketing head and spokesman Hitler spends time in each of his dramatic speeches to point out he called this ahead of time and promote his next book on
reconstruction.
As most 'enlightened countries' aren't prepared for these invasions, social order breaks down. Random dictators and fascist government start
springing up all over the place... led by those who promoted the idea of a section invasion. Eventually the British get involved as the flying demons start
raiding them... though all those nongovernmental preparations for a demonic invasion were actually proved warranted. American forces are called in come the
late '30s for their air power, which didn't really take off outside of Britain in Europe as more that surveillance. Biplane vs. demons was a losing
idea in precedent. Things are getting down to cleanup operations as the decades come to a close... then communist Russia randomly invades Europe and draws
troops away from the nearly cleared out dump sights. The Russians have armored suits and walking weapon platforms... in relatively low quality and without the
mystic abilities... however there are many, many of them. The anti-demon armor suits and other forces are not really geared towards fighting more conventional
forces. Plus who would be stupid enough to attack them at that time?
It takes time to make enough conventional ammo and distribute it to fight them off and then that issue with those original demon portals randomly reopening
around '42-'43 and the Russians take half of Europe while the Allies are actually doing something useful for the species. Once again Germany, Russia
was not helpful taking over half the country, nearly bankrupts itself and we get roughly 1945-6 Europe and roughly the Cold war enviroment.
Probably should have some dumps or portals in Northern Africa and the Middle East just to keep thing closer to normal. Though the Middle East should be more
vindictive to Europe than towards America. Not that love they the US, they just remember the Europeans sold them on the idea of the profit from the dump
sights or just built them there without local say in the matter.
Meanwhile the Japanese have a Coup and invade everything in sight.... The Americans are not amused to be attacked by the 'surprise' (due to poor
translation speed) attack on Pearl Harbor. Add in America with weird where boat-Armslave centaur like landing craft and walking tanks, instead of thread tanks
doing the island hopping war as more or less normal... Then the portal reopens, earily '44ish (the site was warded, but those maintaining the wards left),
then maybe have half the military high command get eaten in the first demon wave. As their only source of Mecha ditched them as crazies early on, the Emporer
(probably remembering what those mecha were designed for and that that nobel group left at the start of this empire war) surrenders after the proto-Armslaves
take over a few major cities rather than then getting hit with a bomb that did so much damage they needed a new word to descrbe what happened to them. Though
the Emporer decides that dealing with the demons actually needs the mystic mecha team and that the surrender is conditional on them dealing with that..
That is my rough scenario on how this could happen.